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Can you see me now? Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos

Can you see me now? Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past. UW-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma and colleagues ...





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A 'cloaking device' -- it's all done with mirrors

A 'cloaking device' -- it's all done with mirrors

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (16) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Somewhat the way Harry Potter can cover himself with a cloak and become invisible, Cornell researchers have developed a device that can make it seem that a bump in a carpet -- or, indeed, ...


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Pigs learn to understand mirrors

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of domesticated pigs has found that with just a little experimentation they can find food based only on a reflection in a mirror.


James Webb Space Telescope first flight mirror completes cryogenic testing

James Webb Space Telescope first flight mirror completes cryogenic testing

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first mirror segment that will fly on the James Webb Space Telescope, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation, has completed its first series of cryogenic temperature tests in the X-ray ...


Holding a mirror up to a gibbon’s mind

Holding a mirror up to a gibbon’s mind

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland developmental psychologists have taken a step into our evolutionary past by studying gibbons.


Molecules wrestle for supremacy in creation of superstructures

Molecules wrestle for supremacy in creation of superstructures

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at the University of Liverpool has found how mirror-image molecules gain control over each other and dictate the physical state of superstructures.


Mirror images united: Simultaneous binding of both enantiomers of a drug to an enzyme

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the binding pockets of enzymes their natural binding partners fit exactly. The principle by which many pharmacological agents work also relies on the fact that these substances fit exactly into the pockets ...


Robert Boyd, professor of optics (PHOTO CREDIT: University of Rochester)

Light's Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast it Goes ... Backwards?

Physics / General Physics

created May 11, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (347) | comments 1

In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science ...


Keeping a 'trained eye' on the James Webb Space Telescope

Keeping a 'trained eye' on the James Webb Space Telescope

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

NASA and Northrop Grumman are keeping a "trained eye" on the James Webb Space Telescope, by training their engineers on how to handle and assemble the telescope's Optical Telescope Element (OTE), also known ...


When it's not just baby weight

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Body image is a tricky thing for many women. Like looking into a funhouse mirror, the way they perceive their bodies can make them think they're thinner or more obese than they actually are. Researchers led by Temple University's ...


Molecules which flip into their own mirror image

Molecules which flip into their own mirror image

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Catalysts do function, despite the fact that not all the chemical reactions (and partial reactions) which occur are fully understood, including those which take place during the treatment of automobile exhaust. ...



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